Word: skillful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...remarkable progress of the last century has established a new profession, based on laws which that progress itself has revealed. So we may now distinguish between the skilled mechanic and the newer type, the engineer. The former is actuated by commercial motives only; the latter, the creation of the advance in natural sciences, possesses knowledge rather than skill and has for his ideal the ultimate benefit of mankind. This latter type is the man we refer to when we speak of the engineer; his profession is engineering...
...Foundlings" is in lighter vein. Two young girls happen, by mistake, into apartments which are in temporary use by a young lord, and are discovered there by two of his men friends, while they are paying him a visit. The complications that ensue are deftly handled with consummate skill, and the result is a delicate little comedy bubbling over with humor of delicious spontaneity...
...University fencing team defeated Columbia 6 bouts to 3 in a very interesting tournament held in the Hemenway Gymnasium yesterday evening. The University team, although composed for the most part of new material, showed surprising skill against the more experienced Columbia team. The work of M. M. Boyd '12, the captain, was particularly brilliant, his fencing showing at all times excellent form and good judgment. Captain Northrup of Columbia excelled for the losing team. Judging from the results of last night's meet, the team should make a very creditable showing in the remaining dates of its unusually long...
...concert of the Musical Club last evening. The program was interesting, well chosen to show the capacity of the members and excellently contrasted. Throughout the evening the standard of performance was commendably high, and not only speaks well for the standards of the club, but also for the unusual skill of individual performers...
...naturally the doctor's enemy, as without it he would not have his work, yet that fact is the very glory of his profession, for although striving towards his own self-elimination, he is following the teaching of Christ. Such a profession not only calls for learning and medical skill but also for a heaven-given power obtained only through faith...